John Company

Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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'CONFtDt:t+l~Al:--
McDivitt
You were still asleep, and I think you got up
around 92: 3(), I would guess .
Sometime around
in there.
I know that I got up three hours
before retrofire and I slept about an hour and
a half.
You can go back and say that you got
up about 92: 30 or 93 elapsed.
Ed had urinated
in the bladder and the bell ows was full .
As it
got towards the end, i t started going out very
slowly, but it did all go out .
So , I turned
the thing off normally.
I l eft preheat on for
a short time, two or three minutes , and then
turned it off.
After my urine dump, I had
about half air and half urine in the bladder,
and the bellows filled out. It just.stopped.
It was pretty obvious that it wasn't going to
go any farther .
I turned off the OVERBOARD
position and went to PREHEA:T on the other
switch.
I then went over to the evaporator
and dumped through the evaporator and it
dumped right overboard.
We used the evaporator
dump system one other time during the flight .
We played back the tapes and the things we
were supposed to do unt il about 93 hours, I
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